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    Acer Predator Helios 3D 15 SpatialLabs Edition

    Jan 04, 2024 6 minutes

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    PRICE £2,749 (£3,299 inc VAT) from currys.co.uk

    Readers with perfect memories may remember my reviews of the Acer SpatialLabs View and View Pro monitors last year (see issue 344, p58). If so, you may recall how impressed I was by this pair of 15.6in portable monitors, which allowed you to view CAD-designed objects and games in 3D without any glasses. With the help of eye-tracking cameras, a lenticular lens and extremely clever software, it didn’t simply work – it worked brilliantly.

    The downside to this arrangement was twofold. One, the price, with even the cheaper View monitor costing £1,199. The second was the form factor: really, this technology either needs to be built into a big desktop monitor (Lenovo has already announced that it plans to sell one next year) or directly into a laptop.

    Acer did release Predator Helios 3D laptops in 2023, but with 12th generation Core chips and 30 series Nvidia processors they were behind

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